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by woutr_be 5y ago
I really wish there was a non-US alternative to this.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I don't like doing this, but I've been in your position multiple times. One was my mobile phone plan, I wanted to transfer to another provider, since they had a cheaper contract, so I just let my current contract expire. Turns out
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I've tried Triplebyte and TopTal in the past, and never made it past their technical skill tests, despite having 10 years of experience. With both, all their questions where either algorithms, or multiple choice questions about some qu
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I'm in Thailand right now, they just suspended the Test&Go scheme, but they still have some "sandbox" destinations. Still accepting tourists.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
There's obviously very valid security concerns sometimes. We didn't use npm audit, but an external tool. And often it would highlight things like "use https", and when looking at which line, it was just a comment that re
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Reminds me of my time at a global bank. After many security incidents, they finally decided to step up their game, and implemented multiple security scans. For any project using NPM, it was an absolute nightmare. Dependencies 3 or 4 levels
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by woutr_be 5y ago
To add to this, I don't really trust the numbers coming out of China. But China takes the zero case policy far more serious, with more extreme lockdowns, and city wide testing. They don't even want to open the border with Hong Kon
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by woutr_be 5y ago
To give you an opinion from someone on the ground in Hong Kong, the zero case policy is very real, and it's strangling the city. Many people are unhappy with it. With an at minimum two week quarantine when you come back to Hong Kong, i
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by woutr_be 5y ago
How's that link aggregator looking? Have you reached your goals?
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I'm glad I'm not alone. It's really depressing to watch people launch products and become successful, all while I'm struggling to even build an MVP. Hopefully some of the suggestions here help you out too.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I definitely have to fear of failing, not necessarily because it would mean the work I've put in is lost.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
> Maybe, just maybe, you are in love with the idea of “build a side-project, and passively make money of it I think you might actually be right about that, now that I think about it...
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by woutr_be 5y ago
> A couple other things that I do is to sit on an idea for at least a month before I start building. Just thinking about it right now, I've been setting on an idea for nearly two years, and I'm honestly still very excited about
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by woutr_be 5y ago
After writing out the process I go through, there's a lot of self doubt. And I guess it mostly revolves around thinking that my idea isn't good enough, or that people might not want to use my product. And often also that I'll
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Ok, I understand what you mean. But that's very much not true. Because when I look at what the eventual end goal is, i.e. having a side project turn into my full time job, that's very much the life I want. Being able to do my own
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by woutr_be 5y ago
> My guess is that you subconciously know that the outcome would not be that great. When it comes to the product, this is very much true. I second guess all my ideas, even the ones that other people have build successfully.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I haven't even gotten to the part of "running the business" yet. I can't even push myself to build basic functionality before second guessing and doubting myself.
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Ask HN: How do I deal with not being able to build products
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I guess that's the reason why they took eSim away on the iPhone 12 in Hong Kong, despite previous models having it. I used to have my main number as an eSim, and then inserted a travel SIM. Had to convert my eSim back to a real SIM car
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I don't really care for memes, and it's totally fine people are into them, there's plenty of places on the internet where you can enjoy them. What I do get annoyed about, is that even on the more serious subreddits, every com
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Not sure how that’s different from my current “monolith” with a puppeteer micro service. But either way, seems that my thinking with adding a micro service was kind of okay.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Does this then not classify as two different micro services?
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by woutr_be 5y ago
That's fair, maybe I'm already planning to far ahead. But I ended up using RabbitMQ and Node (since i wanted to use Puppeteer for this, I actually needed to render the webpage).
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Doesn’t this highly depend on your use case? For example, right now I’m building a system that will take in a URL, crawls the webpage, and does some processing on the data. The whole process takes a good 10 seconds. I designed this as a mic
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by woutr_be 5y ago
> From what I can tell, many developers view the development process as a sacred protected space for creation. I think this entirely depends on what kind of people you hire, and what type of environment you put them in. I've worked
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Doesn't everyone buy a specific computer for the hardware and software? I don't know anyone who goes to a store and just picks a random computer, they either decide between Windows and MacOS, and then pick a computer based on the
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Like I said, they've refunded the 10% service fee that they normally take, and this was only after pointing out that the owner had broken their TOS. The other 90% is still lost, and they claim there's nothing they can do about it.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I have, and the medium ones give me the best fit, but it's still not enough. The shape of the 2nd gen was just a better first for my ears.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Oh, I thought the 3rd gen had the same kind of fit as the 2nd gen? I do like the pros for when I'm working, the noise cancelling is really great. But I can't use them for exercise, since they just fall out so easily.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
That's what I still don't get, they admitted the owner broke their TOS, and used the same listing for multiple properties. Especially after they said they're just the "middle man", you would think they would just is

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